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WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – February 27th – Fr. Thomas
We have a new trash collection company in Wellington at present. Is it just me, or does it seems like the garbage and recyclable trucks are twice the size they were when I was a child? Reclamation facilities are now the size of football stadiums! God isn’t stingy, but I don’t think God wants us […]
WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – February 20th – Fr. Thomas
hanks to an anonymous author for recognizing that. . .There is no egg in an eggplant, no ham in a hamburger, no pines nor apples in pineapples. English muffins were not invented in England and French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take the English language for granted, but if we examine the […]
WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – February 13th – Fr. Thomas
This Sunday is of course, Super Bowl Sunday. I’m reminded about an incident that occurred following Super Bowl #51 in 2017. After the game the New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady’s game jersey went missing. It was supposed to be on an equipment truck, but someone had been able to sneak in and steal the […]
WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – February 6th – Fr. Thomas
The story goes that while Robert Smith was taking his afternoon walk – part of his therapy in recovering from a massive heart attack – the phone rang and his wife, Delores, answered. The call was from the Reader’s Digest Association Sweepstakes in New York. They were calling to inform the Smith Family that Robert […]
WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – January 30th – Fr. Thomas
In his book Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, Rabbi Harold Kushner writes about a man whose wife suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Every day she slipped further and further away in the fog of dementia – but every day he would come to spend time with her. The couple’s heartbroken friends would ask him, “Why do you keep […]